WCOUILLARD'S PROFILE

Retort is the only skill that only lasts until the end of the current battle turn. The others, like Protect and Hiss last several turns, like a normal status effect. Three turns, four, etc. (whatever it may be).

The point brought up about Protect being specific to a selected target makes a lot of sense, though. It should be noted, though, that Rand can inflict his "Protecting" state on more than one ally at a time since it lasts for more than just one battle turn. If he's leading the party in a defensive formation, for example, he can basically take all physical hits by using three turns to select his allies. I do agree, though, it'd be simpler and more efficient if he just protected the party from the next physical attack. I will definitely bring that one up.

Interesting idea on having stats alter the success rate of Hiss. I will also address that.

One other thing about Retort that you guys may not have taken into consideration, though: let's say Jean is in the lead in a defensive formation, and activates Retort. Bow then casts Def-Up on Jean to help him absorb physical damage (if needed, of course). Three enemies physically target Jean (not uncommon in Breath of Fire II, enemies didn't exactly have complex battle patterns, although they will be smarter this time around). Jean will counter ALL of those attacks, with a high probability to critical hit on each one. I think Retort is useful as it currently is, although I will bring up any ideas suggested.

Since we're on the subject of making these new commands more efficient without being broken... I would assume it'd be better if Flora were able to be applied to another party member instead of just being applied to Spar? I will also suggest this.

The commands for transformed characters will remain the same. As in, they won't have their normal commands. They will only have the commands granted by the transformation.

There will be new formations, and they have a deeper effect on battles, similar to Breath of Fire III's method of altering stats based on the formation selected. Enemies will target "front row" characters more often with physical attacks, for example.

Nope, not dead.

I just don't post a lot of the updates on this project here anymore, that's all.

We've reached a point, though, where some careful script planning and execution needs to take place before we can really continue full-steam ahead. We may possibly be looking to hire some new team members (and when I say hire, I mean actually pay them; too many skilled scripters aren't compensated for their work).

For the curious, we've spent some time recently completing the world map (with one addition for the bonus dungeon). The game events are playable up until Capitan's sewer mission, and we've gone ahead and enhanced some of the character battle commands (Bow can now use a Steal command along with his Kill Shot command, for example).

New commands include Steal (Bow), Protect (Rand), and Flora (Spar). The next time I post an update blog here on RMN (whenever that is), I will detail what all of these new commands do. No character has had any of their previous commands removed, mind you.

Make the dungeons red or magenta.

I don't believe in releasing demos for this reason. I try to make a more complete game, then let the hounds loose on it to determine what can be polished and fixed.